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Virago unveil cover for new Sarah Waters novel

12th Feb 2014

Virago have revealed the cover for Sarah Waters' upcoming novel The Paying Guests. AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED.

Due for publication on September 4th this year, the novel is said to be “vintage Waters.” Featuring class tensions, impoverished widows, spinster daughters and mounting passions, The Paying Guests promises to be everything we have come to love and expect from one of our favourite writers.

The cover, from the same design team who created the covers for Waters’ previous novels, has a distinctly noir feel and reflects the iconography and fear of the tense post-war period.